1937 in Music

Events in Music

Event of Interest

Jul 10 Dutch Django Reinhardt's "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"

Jazz Guitarist Django Reinhardt — Jazz Guitarist
Django Reinhardt

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 140

Grace Bumbry

Jan 4 Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano (Venus in Tannhäuser), born in St. Louis, Missouri

Jan 6 Doris Troy [Doris Elaine Higginsen], US R&B singer and songwriter (Just One Look), born in the Bronx, New York
Jan 6 Paolo Conte, Italian singer
Jan 8 Robert Moran, composer
Jan 8 Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)
Jan 12 Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002)
Jan 14 Billie Jo Spears, country singer
Jan 16 Bob Bogle, Portland, rock bassist/guitarist (Ventures-Batman Theme)
Jan 16 Conny Vandenbos, Dutch singer (My rose, my little rose)
Jan 27 John Ogdon, pianist/composer, born in Manchester, England
Jan 29 Bobby Scott, jazz singer
Jan 31 Philip Glass, minimal composer (Einstein on the Beach), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Feb 1 Don Everly, Brownie Ky, vocalist (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
Feb 1 Dr Hook, [Ray Sawyer], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
Feb 2 Martina Arroyo, American opera soprano (NY Met), born in NYC, New York
Feb 2 Tom Smothers, American comedian and folk singer (The Smothers Brothers Show, Serial), born in NYC, New York
Feb 5 Cocky van Oost, [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides)
Feb 8 Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street)
Feb 9 Johnny Sayles, US vocalist (You Made Me Wiggle)
Feb 10 Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
Feb 11 Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist/playwright (The Family)
Feb 14 Magic Sam, rocker (Chicago Bluesman)
Feb 15 Zoltan Pesko, composer
Feb 17 Mickey McGill, US vocalist (Dells-Love is Blue)
Feb 20 David Ackles, Illinois, vocalist/songwriter (American Gothic)
Feb 20 Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist (Feel Like Making Love)
Feb 22 Dubravko Detoni, composer
Feb 26 Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
Mar 4 [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen, musician
Mar 6 Paul Mefano, French composer, born in Basra, Iraq
Mar 6 Ben Keith [Bennett Keith Schaeufele], American musician and record producer (Neil Young, Great Speckled Bird), born in Fort Riley, Kansas (d. 2010)
Mar 8 Raynoma Singleton [Gordy], music producer and singer-songwriter (Motown), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2016)
Mar 8 Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
Mar 12 Elizabeth Vaughan, Welsh opera soprano (Victor-Victoria, born in Llanfyllin
Mar 13 Terence "Terry" Cox, British musician (Pentangle, Duffy's Nucleus, Humblebums), born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Mar 16 Constança Capdeville, Porteguese pianist and composer, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1992)
Mar 16 David Del Tredici, American composer and pioneer of the Neo-Romantic movement (1980 Pulitzer), born in Cloverdale, California
Mar 17 Galina Samsova, Russian ballerina, born in Stalingrad, Soviet Union
Mar 19 Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American pianist and singer (Ain't Got No Home), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Mar 20 Jerry Reed, singer/actor (Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit), born in Atlanta, Georgia
Mar 20 Joe Rivers, rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
Mar 22 Jon Hassell, American composer and trumpet player, born in Memphis, Tennessee
Mar 22 Angelo Badalamenti, American film composer (Twin Peaks, The Straight Story, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive), born in Brooklyn, New York
Mar 23 Heinz Martin Lonquich, German composer
Mar 23 Robert Cage, American blues guitarist (From Lake Mary), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2012)
Mar 24 Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
Mar 24 Billy Stewart, US R&B singer (I Do Love You)
Mar 27 Johnny Copeland, American blues guitarist and singer (Lion's Den), born in Haynesville, Louisiana (d. 1997)
Mar 31 Willem Duyn, [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal)
Apr 3 Louis Satterfield [also known as Lui-Lui, Ealee, and Sat], American trombone player (The Pharaohs, Earth, Wind & Fire, Phenix Horns), born in Shaw, Mississippi (d. 2004)

Merle Haggard

Apr 6 Merle Haggard, country singer (Death Valley Days), born in Bakersfield, California (d. 2016)

Apr 7 Charlie Thomas, singer (Drifters), born in Lynchburg, Virginia
Apr 22 Jack Nitzsche, composer/songwriter (An Officer & a Gentleman)
Apr 24 Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist, born in Lima, Ohio (d. 2001)
May 1 Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
May 4 Ron Carter, American jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach), born in Ferndale, Michigan
May 4 Hans Ulrich Lehmann, composer
May 4 Dick Dale, American guitarist
May 5 Delia Derbyshire, English musician and composer (Doctor Who theme, White Noise), born in Coventry, England (d. 2001)
May 9 Dave Prater, Ocilla Ga, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave)
May 9 Sonny Curtis, Texas, guitarist (Crickets)
May 13 Judith Somogi, American conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982), born in NYC, New York
May 14 Peter Frederic Williams, composer
May 15 Trini Lopez [Tinidad Lopez], American singer and guitarist (If I Had a Hammer), born in Dallas, Texas
May 20 Teddy Randazzo, song writer (I'm on the Outside Looking In)
May 26 Yehuda Yannay, composer
May 29 Irmin Schmidt, rocker (Can)
May 29 Peter Kolman, composer
Jun 2 Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (Handy Man), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2012)
Jun 4 Freddy Fender, American musician ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), born in San Benito, Texas (d. 2006)
Jun 5 Stanley Lunetta, composer
Jun 5 Floyd Butler, American soul singer (Friends of Distinction), born in San Diego, California (d. 1990)
Jun 7 Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
Jun 15 Ray Coleman, British music journalist and biographer, born in Leicester (d. 1996)
Jun 15 Rolf Riehm, German composer, born in Saarbrücken
Jun 15 Waylon Jennings, American country singer and guitarist (Ramblin' Man), born in Littlefield, Texas (d. 2002)
Jun 20 Jerry Keller, rocker/actor (If Ever I See You Again)
Jul 6 Gene Chandler, [Eugene Dixon], rocker (Duke of Earl), born in Chicago, Illinois
Jul 6 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961), born in Gorky, Russia
Jul 10 Sandy Stewart, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jul 12 Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer (Buenas Noches Mi Amor), born in Quebec, Canada
Jul 19 George Hamilton IV, American country musician, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (d. 2014)
Jul 24 Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
Jul 27 Chuck Jackson, Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry)
Jul 28 Peter Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (Peter Duchin Orchestra), born in NYC, New York
Aug 2 Garth Hudson, Canadian pop musician (The Band-Life is a Carnival)
Aug 4 David Vickerman Bedford, composer
Aug 6 Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
Aug 6 Paul Griffin, American session musician and pianist, born in Harlem, New York
Aug 6 Charlie [Charles Edward] Haden, American jazz double-bassist (Liberation Music Orchestra), born in Shenandoah, Iowa (d. 2014)
Aug 8 Louis Neefs, Belgian singer
Aug 14 Brian Fenelly, composer
Aug 16 David Behrman, composer
Aug 20 El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
Aug 22 Donald MacLeary, British ballet dancer (Royal Ballet), born in Glasgow, Scotland
Aug 27 Alice Coltrane, jazz musician
Aug 27 Phil Shulman, Welsh rocker (Gentle Giant), born in Glasgow, Scotland
Aug 27 Tommy Sands, singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me), born in Chicago, Illinois
Sep 7 Olly Wilson, American composer and founder of TIMARA, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2018)
Sep 10 Paul Martin Palombo, composer

Weddings in Music

Wedding of Interest

Jan 27 Musician Nat King Cole (17) weds dancer Nadine Robinson in Ypsilanti, Michigan

Wedding of Interest

Jun 26 Actress Mary Pickford (45) weds actor and band leader Charles Rogers (32)

Jul 11 Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall

Deaths in Music

Jan 8 John Felix August Korling, composer, dies at 72
Feb 14 Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer, dies at 62
Mar 2 Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer, dies at 73
Mar 11 Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
Mar 12 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist/composer, dies at 93
Mar 12 Jeno Hubay, Hungarian composer, dies at 78
Mar 12 Charles-Marie Widor, French organist, composer and professor (Paris Conservatory), dies at 93
Mar 29 Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
Apr 8 Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84
Apr 8 William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
Apr 10 Algernon Ashton, composer, dies at 77
Apr 15 Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79
May 1 Snitz Edwards, Hungarian actor (College, Phantom of the Opera), dies at 69
May 2 Arthur Somervell, composer, dies at 73
May 4 Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
May 11 Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62
Jun 2 Louis Vierne, French organist and composer, dies at 66
Jul 10 Attilio Brugnoli, composer, dies at 56
Jul 11 George Gershwin, American composer (An American in Paris), dies at 38
Jul 17 Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
Jul 28 Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer, dies at 51
Aug 23 Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68
Sep 4 Giovanni Salviucci, Italian composer, dies at 29
Sep 6 Henry Kimball Hadley, composer, dies at 65
Sep 23 Caro Roma [Carrie Northey], American composer and singer, dies at 68
Sep 26 Bessie Smith, American blues singer nicknamed the "Empress of Blues" (over 200 songs), dies of injuries sustained in car crash at 43
Oct 9 August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72
Nov 2 Maude Valerie White, composer, dies at 82
Nov 4 Rogelio del Villar, Spanish composer, dies at 61
Nov 23 Louis Victor Saar, composer, dies at 68
Dec 26 Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet, dies of tuberculosis at 47
Dec 28 Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62

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